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Yup'ik
Etymology
Similar, though probably unrelated, to many interrogative markers in other languages; Compare Korean 가 (ga), 까 (kka, “interrogative particle”), Finnish -ko, -kö (“interrogative suffix”), Indonesian kah (“interrogative suffix”), Malay kah (“interrogative suffix”), Kapampangan ká (“interrogative particle”), Tagalog ga (“dialectal interrogative particle”), Marathi का (kā, “interrogative particle”).
Pronunciation
Particle
-qaa
- Added to the first word in a sentence, used to form polar questions.
References
- Steven A. Jacobson (1995) A practical grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo language, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 22